The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This leaf, which appears to have been created as a singular work rather than part of a book, was designed and made by Johann Leonhard Tauber in 1752. Tauber, who identifies himself as a 63-year-old gravel-crusher in Nuremberg, Germany, "drew" using lines of texts of Christian doctrine, Martin Luther's catechism, and daily prayers. He identifies the ultimate design as the "Reichs Apffel," or "Orb of the Empire." Written in the most minute script, with the smallest text in the center of the flower virtually illegible to the naked eye, this work would have been a painstaking act of devotion.
Micrography, written in Fraktur script
artist: Johann Leonhard Tauber
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Nuremberg, Germany
Dated 1752 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is German.
Designed and executed by Johann Leonhard Tauber, Nuremberg, Germany, 1752
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired 1901; found among Nuremberg prints
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters bequest, 1931
Nuremberg, Germany
Dated 1752 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is German.
Designed and executed by Johann Leonhard Tauber, Nuremberg, Germany, 1752
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired 1901; found among Nuremberg prints
The Walters Art Museum, by Henry Walters bequest, 1931
This leaf, which appears to have been created as a singular work rather than part of a book, was designed and made by Johann Leonhard Tauber in 1752. Tauber, who identifies himself as a 63-year-old gravel-crusher in Nuremberg, Germany, "drew" using lines of texts of Christian doctrine, Martin Luther's catechism, and daily prayers. He identifies the ultimate design as the "Reichs Apffel," or "Orb of the Empire." Written in the most minute script, with the smallest text in the center of the flower virtually illegible to the naked eye, this work would have been a painstaking act of devotion.
Micrography, written in Fraktur script
artist: Johann Leonhard Tauber
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Dutschke, Consuelo
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Davis, Lisa Fagin
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Klemm, Elizabeth
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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